Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey...
SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (341 pp.)-Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II-Harper...
...rush on inside novels about big-time politics in Washington, and each author tries to outdo the last in dreaming up fantastic political skulduggery that has never occurred and never will. The latest to climb on the badwagon are the writing teams of Burdick-Wheeler and Knebel-Bailey. Their target is the Pentagon. According to their spicy exposés, it is a den of some of the most hideous monsters this side of Cyclops' cave...
...Days in May. They are all engaged in a plot to overthrow the President because he has negotiated a disarmament treaty with Russia. Chief conspirator is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Scott, who combines Eisenhower's charm with MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice President, for instance, talks like a Greenwich Village grocer. "You want Ivy League manners...
...Prize, Wallace (4) 5. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (6) 6. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk...